I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
— Jimmy Dean
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.
— Jennifer Hyman
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Whatever ought to be, can be.
— James Rouse
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
— James Allen
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
— Jack Dempsey
I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
— Ireland Baldwin
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.
— Honor Harger
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
— Henry Rollins
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
— Henry David Thoreau
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
— Helen Keller
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
— Harry Seidler
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
— Hans Christian Andersen
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you're funny and working in education, I think the perception is that you're either inspirational or awful. So which was I? I suppose that depends on who you talk to.
— Greg Davies
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
— Jim Rohn
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.
— Jessica Raine
I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.
— Jeffrey Tambor
A lot of straight and transgender boys get in touch with me through my website and social media. They tell me I'm inspirational and beautiful. It boosts my self-esteem.
— Jazz Jennings
I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.
— James Iha
We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.
— Jameela Jamil
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
— Isaac Newton
Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
— Imran Amed
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
— Hermann Hesse
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
— Henry Norris Russell
The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.
— Helen Sharman
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
— Helen Hayes
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man.
— Hannah John-Kamen
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
— Gustave Flaubert
Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn't do the children a disservice.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
— Jim Elliot
We learn about MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Take that same speech and put it in the voice of a woman. Would it be as inspirational? Would it have as much gravitas to it?
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
— Jean Paul
Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
— Jamie Johnson
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
— James E. Faust
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
— Jack Youngblood
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
— Isaac Asimov
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
— Hosea Ballou
One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.
— Herman Cain
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
— Henry Van Dyke
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.
— Harsha Bhogle
I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me.
— Hari Nef
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
— Han Suyin
From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.
— Guru Nanak
